1965

Classmates continue to return to the serenity of New Hampshire. John Bullock recently let me know that he now lives in Lyme. John advised that he would be making an advance reconnaissance visit to Hong Kong on business, and would be contacting class vice president Sin Sing Chiu while there.

Gary Wilson e-mailed me from his new home in the mountains of New Hampshire, to which he has returned after living many years in the flatlands and cornfields of Wisconsin. Gary is still an avid hiker and cross-country skier, and spends a lot of time on the trails and in the mountains. Gary has logged nearly 15 hours flying a bell jet ranger, which he and a friend use to give airborne foliage tours to friends. He says there is no replacement for seeing the Maine coast in a helicopter, and that "People who do not fly just have no idea—none!" Since 1995 Gary has been trying to get away from architecture, but past successes, marked by both past clients and his well-earned reputation, have kept him at it. But he says he has increasingly been looking for new challenges. For one thing he has been endeavoring to write novels, already being onto his third and fourth.

From a different set of mountains, the Rockies, John Fenniman writes that he is still with the Geological Survey in Denver, at the Federal Center in the western downtown area of Denver. John is within two months of being able to retire, but has no plans to do so. For the most part he likes his work and the people he works with. Still, says John, he is getting to the point that he already knows in advance what ideas will and will not work, since most have already been tried several times over.

Larry Geiger '66, who represents all class secretaries to the Alumni Council, recently gave his views on the Alumni Council meeting at the end of November. As Larry sees it, there was a lot of politicking, with nothing less at stake than control of Dartmouth College. This was due to a move to combine the Association of Alumni (to which all alums ipso facto belong but which is mostly dormant) and the Alumni Council, which meets twice annually, and nominates the candidates to fill seven—of the 16 seats on the board of trustees. (Those seven then elect an additional seven trustees; the president of Dartmouth College and the governor of New Hampshire automatically fill the remaining two seats). I don't quite understand the politics of it, but perhaps can get more from our Alumni Council representative, Ted Atkinson, before the next deadline.

Steve Waterhouse has arranged an out-of sequence/out-of-Hanover ski weekend at Vail for the second weekend of March. That will be history by the time you receive this, but reminds me: Don't forget to build your autumn plans around travel to Hong Kong for the Out-of Hanover mini, and then Homecoming/class mini at Pierce's the first weekend of November.

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